vagrant/website/source/intro/getting-started/networking.html.md

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intro	Networking - Getting Started	gettingstarted-networking	At this point we have a web server up and running with the ability to modify files from our host and have them automatically synced to the guest. However, accessing the web pages simply from the terminal from inside the machine is not very satisfying. In this step, we will use Vagrant's networking features to give us additional options for accessing the machine from our host machine.

Networking

At this point we have a web server up and running with the ability to modify files from our host and have them automatically synced to the guest. However, accessing the web pages simply from the terminal from inside the machine is not very satisfying. In this step, we will use Vagrant's networking features to give us additional options for accessing the machine from our host machine.

Port Forwarding

One option is to use port forwarding. Port forwarding allows you to specify ports on the guest machine to share via a port on the host machine. This allows you to access a port on your own machine, but actually have all the network traffic forwarded to a specific port on the guest machine.

Let us setup a forwarded port so we can access Apache in our guest. Doing so is a simple edit to the Vagrantfile, which now looks like this:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise64"
  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567
end

Run a vagrant reload or vagrant up (depending on if the machine is already running) so that these changes can take effect.

Once the machine is running again, load http://127.0.0.1:4567 in your browser. You should see a web page that is being served from the virtual machine that was automatically setup by Vagrant.

Other Networking

Vagrant also has other forms of networking, allowing you to assign a static IP address to the guest machine, or to bridge the guest machine onto an existing network. If you are interested in other options, read the networking page.

Next Steps

You have successfully configured networking for your virtual machine using Vagrant. Read on to learn about setting up shares with Vagrant.